Voice technology: The voice heard 'round the world. We've all heard of Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant (maybe even Samsung's Bixby and Alibaba's Tmall Genie).

As I mentioned in my last monthly column, one of the exciting new frontiers of technology is the shifting ways we interact with it. Voice technology in particular has played a huge role in these changes. Welcome to the multimodal age, where voice technology and natural language processing (NLP) rule supreme.